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The NCAA on Thursday canceled its men’s and women’s college basketball tournaments, known as March Madness, in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The cancellation extends to all remaining winter and spring NCAA championships. The move comes after most of the NCAA’s conferences had suspended their postseason tournaments, including its “power conferences,” the Pac-12, the Big […]

Anthony Petronzio was on the car ride home from a birthday celebration Wednesday night when the news started to come in. During the trip, about 40 minutes from a nearby restaurant to his home in Brick, New Jersey, Petronzio and his family had shared some jokes about the coronavirus. But as alerts rolled in and […]

A federal judge ordered Thursday that former Army analyst Chelsea Manning immediately be released from the Virginia jail where she’s been held in contempt for almost a year. Manning, 32, was taken to a hospital Wednesday after she attempted suicide, her legal team said. She had been scheduled for a hearing Friday in Alexandria, Virginia, […]

The U.S. launched airstrikes on weapons storage facilities in Iraq in retaliation for a rocket attack that killed two U.S. service members and a British soldier, the Defense Department said Thursday. The strikes, which the Pentagon said targeted five facilities, some of which it said housed weapons used to target U.S. and coalition forces, “were […]

Last month, well before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, a little-known unit within the Defense Intelligence Agency had already predicted that the outbreak would reach pandemic proportions. The warning came from the National Center for Medical Intelligence, a senior defense official said. The NCMI, as it is known, is an obscure […]

Cuba confirmed its first cases of the new coronavirus on Wednesday, while its textile industry has been drafted to fabricate masks and the government also urges citizens to make their own, amid a cash crunch and dwindling supplies worldwide. Cuba’s state news broadcaster said four Italian tourists who were staying at a hostel in the […]

Republican lawmakers have persisted in using “Wuhan virus” or “Chinese coronavirus,” despite remarks by Democrats and the director of the CDC that such phrases are inaccurate and even racist. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., used the term “Wuhan virus” on Thursday in announcing that his Washington office was closing because of the illness. His comments came […]